Year-End Lists

A hand-curated, browsable index
of notable year-end lists.

The Underground Railroad - Barry Jenkins

Vulture: Matt Zoller Seitz The Best TV of 2021

We Are Lady Parts

Vulture: Roxana Hadadi The Best TV of 2021

Station Eleven

Vulture: Kathryn VanArendonk The Best TV of 2021

We Are Lady Parts

Vulture: Jen Chaney The Best TV of 2021

Heaux Tales - Jazmine Sullivan

Vulture: Craig Jenkins The Best Albums of 2021

Sometimes I Might Be Introvert - Little Simz

The Line of Best Fit The Best Albums of 2021 Ranked

A Little Devil in America - Hanif Abdurraqib

Lit Hub Our 48 Favorite Books of 2021

Outside Child - Allison Russell

Stereogum: Marissa R. Moss The 10 Best Country Albums Of 2021

Fresh Air: Maureen Corrigan 2021 Best Books

The Power of the Dog - Jane Campion

IndieWire Poll Best Films of 2021

Glow On - Turnstile

Spin The 30 Best Albums Of 2021

Memoria - Apichatpong Weerasethakul

Hyperallergic Our Top 10 Films of 2021

Mercurial World - Magdalena Bay

Vinyl Me, Please The Best Albums of 2021

La Brega

New Yorker: Sarah Larson The Best Podcasts of 2021

The Archer - Shruti Swamy

BuzzFeed The Best Books Of 2021

New Long Leg - Dry Cleaning

Far Out The 50 Best Albums of 2021

Cloud Cuckoo Land - Anthony Doerr

St. Louis Post-Dispatch 20 Favorite New Books of 2021

Petite Maman - Céline Sciamma

The Skinny Films of 2021

Sometimes I Might Be Introvert - Little Simz

The Skinny Top Ten Albums of 2021

Economist The Best Books of 2021

Matrix - Lauren Groff

Library Journal Best Literary Fiction of 2021

Pilgrim Bell - Kaveh Akbar

Library Journal Best Poetry of 2021

Returning the Sword to the Stone - Mark Leidner

New York Times: Elisa Gabbert The Best Poetry of 2021

Great Circle - Maggie Shipstead

Time: Annabel Gutterman The 10 Best Fiction Books of 2021